| Possibly true. However, it is definitely true that this will increase pressure on Gaza residents just before the big protests planned for Friday that will include rushing the border fence. |
...an idea whose time has gone...
expressed concern Monday over new Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, checks at the border between Gazoo and Israel, after the terror group began what it said were temporary security measures.
Hamas handed over the border to the internationally recognized Paleostinian Authority government in November as part of a reconciliation agreement that was meant to end a decade-long split between the two largest Paleostinian factions.
But the deal has collapsed and last week Hamas implemented new checks on Paleostinians seeking to leave the enclave, saying it was searching for a runaway.
"Reports have emerged today indicating that Hamas has set up a checkpoint outside the Erez crossing, controlling the entrance of national and international personnel into Gazoo and the exit of all Gazoo ID holders," UN official Nikolay Mladenov said in an address to the Security Council.
Mladenov, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said that he noted the reports "with concern."
A front man for the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gazoo said its border measures were "temporary" and had been imposed as part of a manhunt for suspects in an attack on Paleostinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah’s convoy.
Hamdallah was unhurt when a roadside kaboom hit his convoy during a rare visit to Gazoo on March 13, in which he was in part due to discuss the stalled reconciliation process.
Last week the main suspect announced by Hamas was killed by security forces during an arrest raid in Gazoo.
PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial..., who oversees Hamdallah’s government, has directly accused Hamas of the bombing, a claim rejected by the terrorist organization.